Smaller, Faster, DFT for Info

I'm working on becoming a faster poster.  It seems like a totally normal phase for bloggers to go through.

One of my personal strengths is thinking.  One of my personal weaknesses is thinking too much.  Blogging lands squarely on the edge of that two sided coin.  When I think, write and share, that's good. Often I think too much and write too little, that's bad.

It happens when I try to be comprehensive or thorough. 

I'm realizing comprehensive information is only good sometimes - and probably rarely or never in the blog medium.  Collaborative learning is about adding small pieces to the overall puzzle - the point is not to finish the puzzle on your own.   

The strength of the blog format is the ease in which small pieces of information can be combined, mashed, and recombined in comments, reposts, track-backs, cross references etc.

Here's a tasty re-post from Logic+Emotion. 

I will come back to specific ideas in future posts.  Let's start with my favorite slides on page 30 and 31. 

A simple networking rule that I reinvented in the shower this morning:

Any piece of information has value proportional to the number of its connections.

(By re-invented, I came to it new by way of thinking of learning curves and collaborative learning models, and it seemed so obvious that I thought there must be multiple books dedicated to the idea.  Then I realized this was the basic idea behind branding.  Oh well.  It was an exciting new gem to me.)

The reason I like Logic + Emotion, and this slide show in particular, is the design of the images. 

If the value of information is proportional to its connections, good informational design increases the potential value of the info by increasing its accessibility and resonance.  More people get it.  More people feel it.